The Islamic State (ISIS) group is now issuing photo identity cards in Syria's Raqa province, but only to males, along with a range of administrative documents, a monitor and activists told AFP on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIS had begun issuing "identity cards to those without proof of identity and
Hamas deputy leader Ismail Haniyeh has declared that his movement would continue to use “armed resistance” against Israel, reports the Ma’an news agency. "Hamas negotiates with the enemy with arms, not talks," Haniyeh said during a press conference, held Thursday, in honor Palestinian Prisoner's Day and the death of Hamas co-founder Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi.
A conference on Holocaust denial in the Muslim world was held at Bar-Ilan University this week ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, featuring numerous academics, several journalists, and Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch. At the event Arutz Sheva got a chance to speak with Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University, a renowned
Tunisian troops have captured a large arms cache including Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and explosives, a security source said on Thursday, according to a Reuters report. The discovery of the arms cache comes as the government struggles to keep track of jihadists after a bloody attack last month. Last month gunmen stormed the national
A senior Hamas official in Gaza called on Thursday for the abduction of Israelis, who would be used to release terrorists held by the Jewish state. "We tell the Zionist enemy: you are all a target for us and the resistance, we will fight you until we finally get rid of you and take
Fatah, the leading faction of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's party, has long been touted in the international arena as a "moderate" potential peace partner for Israel. But in a video featuring songs and posted to Fatah's official Facebook page for it's 50th anniversary last December, which was translated by
A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday jailed deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's former chief of staff for three years, after he was convicted of abusing his powers, AFP reported. The man, Refaa al-Tahtawi had been charged with hiring someone banned from public service, a court official said. Tahtawi had given a job to
Jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS) group broke into Iraq's massive Baiji oil refinery, seized some of its facilities and are hiding among fuel storage tanks, officials said Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency. ISIS has attempted repeatedly over the past 10 months to capture the refinery -- the country's largest -- but
Rebels fighting in southern Syria will not cooperate militarily with Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al Nusra Front, a spokesman said Wednesday. Essam al-Rayes' comments come after tensions between local rebel groups and Al Nusra over the capture of a border crossing between Syria and Jordan. "We reject all forms of cooperation with
Hamas evidently wanted to leave no doubts that when it comes to implementing its jihadist genocidal goals of wiping out the Jewish people by all terrorist means at its disposal, age is no barrier - and that brainwashing works all the better the younger you start. Hamas's Ministry of Interior, which is part of
